Game Dev

The Unity Awards! Thank YOU!

The Unity Awards were this week!

This year they did something different, usually they just announce the winners in a blog post but this time they made a proper livestreamed event. It was a pretty nice event (I watched it myself live) they announced the winners and showcased some awesome games made with Unity. I think this is awesome, visibility is one of the biggest challenges nowadays so Unity using this event as a way to promote more games made with Unity is an excellent idea.

For the Awards, Super Mario RPG won best Desktop/Console game, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown won best 3D Visuals (gorgeous game), COCOON won the Golden Cube Award, and Hollow Knight: Silksong obviously won Most Anticipated.

And for the Best Tutorials Award I was actually the winner! Thank you all so much for voting for me! I work very hard to make the best videos/tutorials/courses I can make and I really hope they've helped you a lot on your own game dev journey!

Check out the awards page for all the winners and all the nominees. I really hope they do another event like this next year.

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Game Dev

$600k spent on education for a brighter future for games

One of the best game development YouTube channels in recent years is "Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games"

This is the director of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. games, it's a great channel with a ton of interesting knowledge straight from someone who has been in the industry at the highest level for many years.

He just posted a new video where he reveals that all the videos he made were actually recorded two and a half years ago. He did them all at once and released them over the weeks until now. The video also revealed some fun numbers, it cost around $600,000 to edit and translate all the videos, without including the cost for his own time. He mentions how he considers this cost as an "investment toward a brighter future for games."

The entire video is fascinating to hear the story of how this channel was made and how much work went into it. He was writing 12 scripts per day, that's insane! I think I'm pretty efficient in producing videos for my channel but this is a whole another level.

In total there are 260 videos, 19 hours of content and over 80 million views. If you've never seen them then now is the time to go through this very valuable library of game dev knowledge.

Game Dev

Epic's Fab is out! FREE Quixel Megascans!

Epic has just launched their Fab Digital Content shop (asset store)

This contains a ton of visual assets and tools that run on every engine, there's a section for Unity compatible assets.

One super awesome bonus is how their Quixel MegaScans library (over 17,000 realistic super high quality assets) is completely FREE until 2025!

You can use these assets in Unity games so definitely pick it up quickly!

However feedback on the store has been pretty negative with a ton of usability issues. Epic has mentioned how they're working on them which is great but it seems the website is a bit undercooked right now. Having competing asset stores is obviously a great thing for developers, so I do hope they work out the issues and this becomes a valid competitor to the Unity Asset Store.

Gaming

Build Factories in SPACE!

Factorio, the awesome factory automation game that started development in 2011 and has sold millions of copies, has just released their first DLC, Space Age!

This DLC is all about taking your factories into outer space. Build your spaceship with a bunch of machines, then take your spaceship and land on unique alien planets each with different biomes and resources.

It's a 35$ very substantial DLC and currently sits at 2900 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews, people love it!

The game is also a marvel of engineering, they use a custom engine to support simulating literally millions of machines and items in a huge world, super impressive.

Another factory automation game that recently had a big update was Satisfactory hitting 1.0, this also pushed it up in the charts onto a new record peak of 186k CCU (Factorio peak was 111k)

It's a good time to be a Automation game fan!